Two contrasting Irish made documentaries are on the running order in Garter Lane Arts Centre next week. Between Land and Sea runs on Tuesday 21st at 7.30pm. Directed by Ross Whitaker who gave us Unbreakable: The Mark Pollock Story, it follows the lives of surfers based in Lahinch both in and out of the water.

The following night, Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take as their point of departure the compelling 18th Century figure, Ambrose O’Higgins - father of Bernardo O’Higgins, the first leader of Independent Chile - and attempt to retrace his remarkable journey from Ireland to Chile in Further Beyond. Taking an unconventional approach to the traditional biopic the filmmakers get sidetracked into a competing storyline of immigration and displacement. Booking 051-855038 and garterlane.ie.

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The Government wants us to vote "yes" in the abortion referendum in order to delete unborn children's right to life and allow abortion on demand in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion campaigners claim that there is no human being yet alive by this point. That's why they think abortion on demand is permissible.They are completely wrong. By 12 weeks the baby in the womb has a beating heart, can swallow and yawn, can kick, stretch and jump, has arms, legs, fingers and toes, has fingernails and hair, h …